Belinda Wheaton

University of Waikato — New Zealand

Psychology · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking(72), Sport and Mega-Event Impacts(71), Sports, Gender, and Society(53), Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management(24), Physical Education and Pedagogy(14)

Publications136 total

Eternal Wound, Performance Enhancement, or Minor Inconvenience?: Managing the Menstrual Cycle in Olympic Weightlifting
Journal of Sport and Social Issues·2026Open Access
The Changing Contexts of Sports Development
2026
Mapping un/contested knowledge of sex/gender in high performance sport: applying Actor-Network Theory to women’s Olympic Weightlifting
Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health·2025
Equal to, different from, better than: The multiple bodies of women Olympic Weightlifters
International Review for the Sociology of Sport·2025Open Access
More than meds: why easier access to ADHD treatment has to be part of a whole-system approach
2025
‘Dust off the cobwebs’: Windsurfing, kiteboarding, and the politics of modernising Olympic sailing
International Review for the Sociology of Sport·2025Open Access
Lifestyle sports, blue space and mental health
2024· 1 cited
The greenest games ever? How claims of Olympic sustainability hit a reef in Tahiti
2024· 1 cited
Breakdancing, DJs and Tahitian surf: Paris 2024 is going for gold in Olympic innovation
2024
Hydrophobia, dis/connection, and difference: Understanding Chinese immigrants’ fear of coastal swimming in Aotearoa New Zealand
Health & Place·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
‘Between the flags’: women's participation in surf lifesaving sport in Aotearoa New Zealand
Sport Education and Society·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Surfing, ocean identities, and well-being in Aotearoa New Zealand
2024
“Flourishing Against the Normative”
2024· 2 cited
Chinese migrant communities’ relationships to coastal spaces in the ‘City of Sails’, Aotearoa New Zealand
Annals of Leisure Research·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
Action Sports and the Olympic Games: From Tokyo to Paris, Los Angeles, and Beyond
Journal of Olympic Studies·2024· 1 cited
Review: <i>Friendship in the Merovingian Kingdoms: Venantius Fortunatus and His Contemporaries</i>, by Hope Williard
Studies in Late Antiquity·2024
The challenges of ‘researching with responsibility’: Developing intersectional reflexivity for understanding surfing, place and community in Aotearoa New Zealand
Qualitative Research·2023· 7 citedOpen Access
The Attempted Grobalization of Parkour by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique
The International Journal of the History of Sport·2023· 5 citedOpen Access
Introduction
2023
Leisure and the Politics of the Environment
2023· 5 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Holly Thorpe(12), Paul Gilchrist(5), Rebecca Olive(4), Jayne Caudwell(3), Alan Tomlinson(2), Louise Mansfield(2), Jordan Waiti(2), Georgina Roy(2), Stephen Wagg(2), Becky Beal(1), Beccy Watson(1), Marg Cosgriff(1), Lisette Burrows(1), Neil Ravenscroft(1), Robin Kearns(1), Reidar Säfvenbom(1), Jennifer P. Agans(1), Tim Dant(1), Alister O’Loughlin(1), Mihi Nemani(1)